<p>So let's say, by some small chance, I could make it into Julliard on Piano performance. I've wanted to double major in piano and art history for a while now. Could I do that, and do my other major at Columbia? Is that possible?</p>
<p>I hope this made sense.</p>
<p>As a Juilliard student you could take classes at Columbia, but to double-major you would need to be part of the Juilliard-Columbia exchange, which means being accepted into both school and being accepted into the program.</p>
<p>Here is the link:</p>
<p>[Columbia-Juilliard</a> Exchange | Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/firstyear/juilliard]Columbia-Juilliard”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/firstyear/juilliard)</p>
<p>Note that the exchange students do not get a degree at Juilliard, but take lessons there while getting a BA at Columbia. (You could also major in art history somewhere else, and perhaps take piano lessons privately or at MSM, Mannes or other resource.)</p>
<p>Students in the C-J exchange can apply to the joint program (also open to a limited number of first-years, who apply to both schools) which is a BA/MM program, BA from Columbia, MM from Juilliard, which is a five year program. It is very intense and also probably very selective. I believe that the BA could be in art history: at least, in similar programs, the BA part of the double degree does not have to be in music.</p>
<p>There is a difference between double major and double degree. If you want to double major in piano and art history, Juilliard probably would not be the best place to be, because Juilliard does not offer an art history major. </p>
<p>However, for BM students at Juilliard, there are 24 credits of humanities in the program: including art history and aesthetics. [Interdivisional</a> Liberal Arts - The Juilliard School - Acalog ACMS?](<a href=“The Juilliard School - Acalog ACMS™”>http://catalog.juilliard.edu/content.php?catoid=1&navoid=589)</p>
<p>So, you could do a BA in art history at a college or university, and study piano privately or through the exchange. Or you could do piano performance at Juilliard and see if the liberal arts courses might satisfy you in the area of art history and other humanities classes. Or you could try to do a double degree with BA in art history from Columbia and MM in piano performance from Juilliard in 5 years.</p>
<p>There is also an exchange with Barnard (not sure if you are male or female) :)</p>
<p>Good point about Barnard.</p>
<p>Here’s the page on the Columbia-Barnard-Juilliard programs: the exchange and the joint ABA/MM. Note that in the exchange you would not play in Juilliard ensembles or classes, only lessons. </p>
<p>[Columbia-Barnard-Juilliard</a> Programs | The Department of Music at Columbia University](<a href=“http://music.columbia.edu/programs/undergrad/juilliard]Columbia-Barnard-Juilliard”>Columbia-Barnard-Juilliard Programs - Columbia University Department of Music)</p>
<p>The joint program makes me exhausted just reading about it, but of course there are students who do it and thrive, as well as students who don’t finish the joint program because it is too much.</p>
<p>If you would like to pursue both piano and art history at the highest level check out Bard College Conservatory which requires a double degree and has a fabulous piano staff (Richard Goode, Peter Serkin, Melvin Chen & Jeremy Denk) and a wonderful art history department. Admission won’t be any easier than Juilliard, though.</p>
<p>As others have said the joint program is not a dual major. The program is called the joint exchange, for the first 3 years you take courses at Columbia or Barnard and have a private lesson at Juilliard (with jury). In your junior year, you can audition to get into Juilliard’s MM program, and if accepted in your final year you spend more time at Juilliard working towards the masters while finishhing up the BA at Columbia/Barnard. Someone can do 4 years of the exchange without getting into the MM program…students getting a BM at Juilliard through this program can take 1 course a semester at columbia/barnard…</p>
<p>As others have said, this is extremely difficult to get into and only a small handful of students do it each year,. and usually they are kids who are both musical and academic achievers at a very high level. Put it this way, it is difficult to get into Juilliard or Columbia, to get into the exchange program is an order of magnitude harder then either one seperately, and even if you get into Juilliard and columbia there is no guarantee you can get into the exchange program or if you get into that, into the MM program. </p>
<p>If you want to truly dual major in music and something else, better to go to a program like Bard or music programs inside universities like Rice,Indiana, Michigan, etc…there are also joint programs between NEC and tufts/Harvard, Peabody/Johns Hopkins, but from everything I hear they are extremely difficult to get into and even tougher to keep up with. </p>
<p>[Bachelor</a> of Music and Diploma Additional Information - Bachelor of Music and Diploma - Application & Audition Requirements - The Juilliard School](<a href=“http://www.juilliard.edu/apply/program-information/bm/additional-information.php]Bachelor”>http://www.juilliard.edu/apply/program-information/bm/additional-information.php)</p>
<p>Oops, I did not mean to write “double major”-- what Musicprnt and others write is correct. And it is also true that in the exchange one is not so much a Juilliard student so much as a Columbia or Barnard student who takes lessons at Juilliard.</p>
<p>To second what SpiritManager wrote, Bard would be a great option for someone with your interests. As a Juilliard student you would be able to take academic courses at Columbia, but they are very difficult to schedule.</p>